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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Prologue
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Musicological Issues
- Recordings
- Audio
- Video
- References
- External links
thumb|Title page of the original libretto
Giasone (Jason) is an opera in three acts and a prologue with music by Francesco Cavalli and a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. It was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano, Venice on 5 January 1649, during carnival. The plot is loosely based on the story of Jason and the golden fleece, but the opera contains many comic elements too.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giasone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.